Tommy Lee Jones Quotes & Sayings

“Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.”

“Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.”

“No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.”

“The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.”

“Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.”

“I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.”

“I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.”

“I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.”

“I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.”

“The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'”